Hi, everyone. It's Dr. Niagara again. Our next episode, Psychology Unplugged. Thanks to all of our listeners across the world.

That you guys reach out with your stories and questions and shared passion for psychology and mental health.

And I appreciate the continued support of all of our longtime followers,

as well as a lot of new people who join as new listeners. So I will give you contact information

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episode. So, last week, I had covered Colberg stages of moral development. A few weeks prior, I did Freud stages of psychosexual development, and I alluded to this

in the past.

I'm going to focus on Eric Erickson and his stages of psychosocial development.

And, you know, psychology has these really good, I think, stage models, but I don't think

there is always as linear as the different theorists postulated that once you become a certain age, you then are bestowed

certain abilities, cognitive, moral reasoning, psychosexual, psychosocial. But I think it is definitely

a progression. And I think it is definitely a progression.

And I think Eric Erickson was really, really a pioneer in looking deeper than what Freud

looked at because he was a German-American psychoanalyst and he was a student of

Freud but what he did differently is he extended developmental theory beyond childhood

whereas Freud emphasized Freud like I mentioned,

psychosexual stages, Erickson focused more on what you call psychosocial development,

which is essentially how we interact with our social world

and how the interaction shapes our identity over time.

And a term that we've all used or heard in some capacity, identity crisis, was actually coined by Eric Erickson.

And I think it's a concept that's really, it's really woven deeply into how we understand

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